Episode 574: Lab Grown Meat

Idiots On Parade, the Too Ugly for TV Podcast

00:00 Welcome!

00:20 Netflix Censors Reality

04:25 Okinawa Air Force

06:14 Beef, It’s What’s Grown in a Lab

15:40 RFK Jr.’s Brain Worm

20:30 Kristi Noem

25:04 Helping the Homeless

29:16 The Taylor Swift Law

—Kim Kardashian was booed at the Roast of Tom Brady. Was it because she did a horrible job, or simply because she’s a horrible person? Doesn’t matter, because Netflix edited out the negative feedback she received. Why? Jake has thoughts, and they make a lot of sense.

—Interlude: nathan tells a quick story about how he ruined a big surprise Officer’s Wives were excited about. It’s hard to believe The Bachelorette is still a thing, but man… that first season was gangbusters.

—The future is here, ladies and gentlemen: scientists are growing meat in labs… But, NOT IN FLORIDA!

(All caps = serious business.)

That’s right, Ron DeSantis, failed candidate for president and wearer of Ken Doll boots, signed a law that took lab grown meat off the table in America’s dangling wiener. Republicans say they’re the party of “Freedom” and “Individual rights” and “Free Market,” yet more and more often that seems to involve an asterix.

(*Freedom and Individual rights do not apply to things Republicans don’t like, especially women’s healthcare.)

—The world makes sense again… RFK Jr. had a worm eating his brain. No wonder he says so many idiotic things.

—Jake and nathan have a new hero: South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem. What a magnificent politician. Jussie Smollett could’ve used her in his corner. She’s shooting animals, lying about meeting politicians… and all the while, looking like a psychotic member of a Real Housewives show.

—Sanai Graden is a good person, who tried to do a good thing. She tried helping a homeless fella, and raised $400,000 for him. Unfortunately, the dude disappeared, most likely due to issues with mental health and/or addiction.

We tend to glorify the homeless in America; we pretend all they need is a little nudge in the right direction, and they’d be all good. Sadly, that isn’t the case in a majority of instances.

—Ticketmaster is the worst. Full stop. They allow bots to buy all the best seats (some suspect the own the bots, and by the seats themselves in order to pull a better profit off resale sites), and they add fees up the wazoo to every purchase.

Well, a legislator in Minnesota had enough, and did something about it. In a good first step toward what should be a federal law, the Taylor Swift law is designed to protect consumers.

Hopefully it works.

(Sidebar: nathan discusses getting reamed by a rental car company in Costa Rica.)

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Find Jake at @jakevevera

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Lab Tech photo by Artem Podrez, via Pexels